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ALERT sailing brigs (1835-1846)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Star     Woolwich DYd 9.1834 29.4.1835 18.6.1835 // --- completed as packet brig
Ranger     Bottomley, Bermondsey 9.1834 25.7.1835 7.12.1835 // --- completed as packet brig
Linnet     Joseph White, Cowes 9.1834 27.7.1835 5.11.1835 // --- completed as packet brig
Alert     Bottomley, Bermondsey 9.1834 24.9.1835 20.1.1836 // --- completed as packet brig
Express     Colson, Deptford 9.1834 8.10.1835 9.3.1836 // --- completed as packet brig
Swift     Colson, Deptford 9.1834 21.11.1835 26.4.1836 // --- completed as packet brig
Penguin     Pembroke DYd 11.1836 10.4.1838 21.9.1838 // --- completed as packet brig
Peterel     Pembroke DYd 4.1837 23.5.1838 3.10.1838 // --- completed as packet brig
Crane     Woolwich DYd 1.1838 28.5.1839 6.10.1839 // --- completed as packet brig
Ferret     Plymouth DYd 4.1838 1.6.1840 24.11.1840 // --- completed as packet brig
Cygnet     Woolwich DYd 5.1838 6.4.1840 4.9.1840 // --- completed as packet brig
Philomel     Plymouth DYd 4.1840 28.3.1842 16.7.1842 // --- completed as survey vessel
Heroine     Woolwich DYd 5.1840 16.8.1841 11.12.1841 // --- completed as packet brig
Hound     Deptford DYd 2.7.1845 23.5.1846 27.8.1846 // --- completed as packet brig

 

Displacement normal, t

358bm

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

29.0 gundeck

Breadth, m

9.22

Draught, m

4.11 - 4.52 hold depth

No of shafts

 

Machinery

sails

Power, h. p.

 

Max speed, kts

 

Fuel, t

 

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

4 x 1 - 116/8 12pdr SBML carronades, 2 x 1 - 93/16 6pdr SBML

Complement

110

Project history: 6.8-gun brigs. William Symonds design of 1834. Dispatch, Dove, Mariner and Martin were reordered as Acorn class.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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